18 Jul
2000
18 Jul
'00
11:30 p.m.
> Incidentally, an analogue multimeter can be more
use than a
> digital one
> for some work. It's a lot better at showing trends,
> indicating when the
> amplitude of a signal is peaking, etc. Accuracy is not that
> important in
> most repairs -- certainly +/-5% is easily good enough for most work.
Yes, but the cheapie one I bought for work hasn't
got the clearest readout
on the planet :) And I don't think it survived a 1 foot drop onto a wooden
floor despite being encased in a smart rubber coat! The one thing I've never
been able to do is read voltages from one - I can see that my transformer is
putting out *a* voltage but can't deduce from the readout *what* voltage.
Inexperience showing thru there. It's like the difference between analogue
and digital watches I suppose.
Earth - a planet so backwards they still think digital watches are a pretty
neat idea.
I personally don't see what's so inaccurate about analog watches. I can
easily read mine to a precision of one second, which is one part in
12*60*60. And that's just a regular watch; there are plenty of analog
stopwatches out there that will time to a hundredth of a second, which
(considering the human interface) is just fine.
Tim.